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細意識

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Basic Meaning: subtle mental consciousness

Senses:

  • Consciousness of subtle unbroken attention. This consciousness, which was posited by the Sthaviras 上座部, is roughly equivalent to that of eka-rasa-skandha 一味蘊 formulated by the Sautrântikas 經量部, with both being attempts to account for the continuity of identity of the person in the face of the basic Buddhist principle of no-self, along with the fact that the mental consciousness is subject to interruptions. Thus it is one of the notions in the history of the development of Buddhist consciousness theory (such as 根本識, 窮生死蘊, 果報識, and 有分識) of a fundamental and enduring consciousness that is consummated in the positing of the ālayavijñāna 阿賴耶識 in Yogâcāra. Also written 細心 (Skt. sūkṣma-citta, sūkṣma-mano-vijñāna). 〔成唯識論 T 1585.31.17a11〕 [Charles Muller, Achim Bayer]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bulgyo sajeon 472a

    Fo Guang Dictionary 4769

    Ding Fubao {Digital Version}

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)1422b

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    Entry created: 2007-08-02

    Updated: 2017-01-23